Opening night time on the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino guarantees to be a star-studded affair with particular company corresponding to Rosanna Arquette and Vanilla Ice, in addition to different filmmakers and performers from this yr’s lineup. There can be equal star wattage on the display screen within the competition’s opening movie American Dreamer, a hilarious comedy starring Peter Dinklage, Shirley MacLaine, and Matt Dillon. This is, in fact, simply the beginning of an enormous providing from the FLIFF, which ranges from unbiased and documentary movies to worldwide and native filmmaking and all the pieces in between.
Special occasions punctuate the collection following opening night time. On Saturday, November 5, there’s a 3D screening of Secrets of the Sea on the magnificent Villa de Palma. Hosted with Winterfest and FLIFF, the occasion is completely calibrated to its environment as a movie exploring the treasures beneath the water and the significance of marine biodiversity. As a centerpiece, Ride Above, a unprecedented story a few horse and its younger rider, options spectacular performances and deft course. The closing weekend gives two terrific themed occasions. On November 12, have fun the twentieth anniversary of the surf movie Blue Crush close to the water and beneath the open air on a large out of doors display screen at Las Olas Beach Oceanside Park. Finally, the closing night time contains a fête worthy of the wild west with the premiere of Yellowstone: All Will Be Revealed, the opening of the fifth season of the hit present, with barbecue, open bars, and country-western performances.
Bittersweet comedy Camino al Exito will premiere at FLIFF.
Photo courtesy of Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival
Between these particular occasions, you’ll uncover a wide array of unbiased and documentary movies, in addition to their makers in attendance. Filmmaker Rob Margolies will current his drama Bobcat Moretti, joined by forged members Tim Realbuto, Taryn Manning, and Sally Kirkland, who can be introduced with a lifetime achievement award. If you are in search of indie comedy, The Drop, directed by Sara Adina Smith and govt produced by the Duplass brothers, is equally intelligent and cringy following the exploits of an obnoxious hippie couple. John Hamm stars in Corner Office, a brand new darkish comedy from Joachim Black a few compulsive bureaucrat who discovers a secret room.
In conjunction with unbiased options, the competition has a powerful nonfiction lineup. Titles corresponding to The Artist and the Astronaut, The Long Rider, and Wild Beauty show the depths of indie documentary filmmaking. A form-of sidebar of the documentary part is worthy of consideration: “Four Docs that Rock” options 4 new documentaries revolving across the music world that includes acts corresponding to Duran Duran, Vince Montana, Lee Field, and Vanilla Ice. Likewise, the competition has fastidiously curated a collection of LGBTQ documentaries this yr, together with All Man – the International Male Story and Not a Tame Lion, which look at the historical past and illustration of queer tradition.
The worldwide contingent is equally spectacular. Argentine director Sebastian Rodriguez will have fun the world premiere of his bittersweet comedy Camino al Exito, and Finish director Miki Kaurismaki brings The Grump in Search of an Escort, a rousing comedy, for its southeast premiere. If you have an interest within the romantic comedy style, Hear Me Out, The Tasting, and Romona are certain bets. On the extra dramatic aspect, the competition showcases Alauda Ruiz de Azúa’s home drama Lullaby from Spain. Novembre explores the terrorist assaults of November 13, 2015, in Paris with French stars Jean Dujardin and Sandrine Kiberlain. One movie to not overlook is Blandine Lenoir’s Annie Colere, a well timed story that includes a efficiency by considered one of France’s most fascinating actors, Lauren Calamy.
If journey via movie would not attraction to you, FLIFF has a sturdy collection of regionally made and themed motion pictures. Jenny Lorenzo and Kevin Bosch return to South Florida to current their Abuela’s Family: the Sanksgiving Episodes that includes a collection of episodes from the favored internet collection. Numerous documentaries characteristic ties to South Florida, together with Life with CTE, following the lifetime of Football Hall-of-Famer Warren Sapp via his ordeal with the deadly mind illness. Films like The Ghost of Richard Harris, JoJo’s Circus, When We Were Shuttle, Whaam! Blam!: Roy Lichtenstein and the Art of Appropriation, and Ranger all characteristic a connection to or creator from South Florida. Perhaps the best celebration of native cinema comes within the “Sunshine Celluloid” assortment that includes all movies filmed in Florida, together with the interval noir D.O.A., comedian martial arts movie Combat Club, the first-responder drama Bridge to the Other Side, and filmmaker Sasha Levinson’s deeply private Sylvie of the Sunshine State.
Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival. Friday, November 4, via Sunday, November 13, at varied areas; fliff.com. Ticket costs range.